1 . Sally is one hundred years old. She has no sons or daughters. Her husband ______ fifteen years ago. But she didn’t move into a nursing home. She would like to ______ herself every day.

Every night she spends two hours ______ kids with their maths for twenty years. All kids living on her street can get her help without payment (付费). She was a famous ______ before she retired from a middle school.

She gets up early in the morning, then does ______ to keep healthy, goes shopping or helps cleaners ______ the street. And she does these happily.

When the kids come for help, she is always ______ and tries her best to help them. People asked her why. She said, “I love it. It makes me happy to help them.”

She is always happy every day and always says hello to people around her ______ a smile. “I’ve decided to love everything around me. So I’m happy to do ______. I’m thankful for those kids who come to me for ______. Each kid is a gift for me. I love each day to help them.” She said. Really, a good decision decides what a person does in life.

1.

A．died

B．woke

C．slept

D．went

2.

A．look like

B．look at

C．look after

D．look for

3.

A．helping

B．working

C．studying

D．teaching

4.

A．cleaner

B．nurse

C．worker

D．teacher

5.

A．washes

B．homework

C．cleans

D．sports

6.

A．walk

B．run

C．sweep

D．cross

7.

A．awful

B．tired

C．happy

D．boring

8.

A．for

B．with

C．without

D．in

9.

A．something

B．nothing

C．anything

D．everything

10.

A．help

B．money

C．food

D．fun

2 . If you have no special plans for your holidays, why not spend your time helping others?

Don’t listen to people who say the young people often think only of themselves. It’s not true at all. More and more people in the USA volunteer to spend their school holidays working for others. And they don’t do it for money. Here are some of their stories.

Alice Hamilton,17

I’m going to help the Forest Centre build new hiking paths in the mountains. It’s going to be terrific—I’ll spend the whole summer living in the tent and breathing the clean mountain air. I’m going to sleep under the stars. It’ll be a nice sport, and I’ll be able to do something good at the same time.

Jason Moore,18

This summer, I’m going to volunteer with Special House Programme. They build good, low-cost houses and sell them to families that are not very rich.

They’ll teach me what to do, so I’ll help people and also have a chance to learn how to build houses.

Trish Anderson,16

I’m going to teach kids who have trouble in reading. I’ll work for a programme called Reading for Life. Every day, I’m going to help kids choose and read books that they like. I want to be a teacher and I love children and reading, so this is going to be a great experience for me.

1. Young people in the USA volunteer to spend ______ helping others.

A．school holidays	B．all the school days
C．every morning	D．every afternoon

2. Alice will volunteer to ______ in summer.

A．breath the clean mountain air	B．live in the tent
C．build new hiking paths in the mountains	D．sleep under stars

3. From the passage, we know that Special House Programme helps ______.

A．children in poor families	B．workers who build houses
C．poor families who cannot buy houses	D．build hiking paths

4. ______ wants to be a teacher.

A．Alice Hamilton

B．Trish Anderson

C．Jason Moore

D．No one

5. Which is the most possible title for this passage?

A．Reading for Life	B．A Special House Programme
C．The Forest Centre	D．Young American Volunteers

4 . My heart is full of love.     1     (recent), I am so grateful for the support and friendship of     2     (my). With his help, I can realize my dream of     3     (make) a kind acts project.

We live in Johannesburg, South Africa, where, as you all know, poverty(贫穷) and unemployment are huge     4     (problem). I have been looking forward to opening a soup kitchen for many years. I want to try my best to help those people in need.

We have created a Facebook page     5     (call) Shadows and we usually share our kind acts activities with our friends on it. These days, I am making hearty soup while my friend is handing out blankets to     6     homeless. There are so many people     7     (live) on the street, which shocks me a lot.

We are calling on more people to join us. The act of love by giving has touched my heart greatly. Sometimes I’m     8     (exhaust) at the end of the day,     9     I still love the journey I’m on. Because     10     the project, my life becomes so beautiful. I just know what I’m doing now may make a difference to some people’s life.

5 . 语法填空

Volunteering is becoming popular now. Have you ever     1     (take) part in voluntary work? You could work with groups to pick up something dirty, help to teach kids or feed people without homes. People will thank you     2     your work.

Volunteering doesn’t just help those groups. Volunteers can also improve     3     (they). When you volunteer, you can make friends, learn something useful and experience many     4     (meaning) things. Volunteering helps with your body and mind. When you volunteer, you’ll become friendlier than before. So if you don’t have enough friends now, be     5     volunteer. You’ll meet people who can share your interests and feelings. Voluntary work will mean a lot to you. That’s     6     your work makes a difference to someone’s life. After you join a group and decide     7     (be) a volunteer, someone may give you lessons on how to be a good volunteer. I think you will enjoy     8     (help) others in need. Maybe you     9     (teach) new volunteers one day. Although you never     10     (appear) at some voluntary work in the past, it’s not late to start from now on.

6 . One day, there was a blind man called John sitting on the bench with a ________ by his feet, that read, “I am blind. Please help me.”

A creative publicist(广告员) named Tom was ________ by the blind man and stopped to see that the man only had a few ________ in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat, ________ asking for permission, took the sign, turned it around and ________ a new message. Then he put the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

Later that afternoon the publicist returned to the blind man and noticed that his ________ was almost full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized(识别) his ________ and asked if it was he who had ________ his sign. He also wanted to know ________ the man wrote on it.

The publicist replied, “I just changed the message ________ people could understand it.” He smiled and went on his way. The new sign read, “TODAY IS SPRING AND I CANNOT SEE IT.”

1.

A．sign

B．board

C．book

D．picture

2.

A．driving

B．riding

C．walking

D．flying

3.

A．food

B．coins

C．paper

D．message

4.

A．with

B．for

C．without

D．about

5.

A．left

B．wrote

C．saw

D．heard

6.

A．bag

B．bowl

C．sign

D．hat

7.

A．footsteps

B．name

C．face

D．noise

8.

A．seen

B．changed

C．written

D．heard

9.

A．how

B．when

C．who

D．what

10.

A．but

B．though

C．so

D．or

7 . Dear sir,

I have to travel every day from Souk Road to the airport. Two buses travel along the routes: the No. 49 bus and the No. 16 bus. But by the time the No. 16 bus reaches Souk Road, it is always full, so I can’t get on it. I have to wait for the No. 49 bus because sometimes there are empty seats in it. The timetable says that there are buses from Souk Road to the airport every ten minutes. If this is true, why do I have to wait half an hour for a bus nearly every day?

The rules say that if there are empty seats on a bus, the bus must stop at every stop where people are waiting. Why do the half-empty buses go straight past me when I am standing at the bus stop? The rules say that no bus may carry more than 40 seated passengers and 20 standing passengers. Yesterday I was the first to get off the bus when it reached the airport. I counted the other passengers as they got off. There were 129 people.

It is clear that our bus companies break the rules and think little of their passengers. Can nothing be done to make your service better?

I’m looking forward to your early reply.

Yours sincerely,

John

1. This passage is ________.

A．a story	B．a talk
C．a letter of thanks	D．a letter of complaint (投诉)

2. The writer has to take the No. 49 bus because ________.

A．it arrives on time	B．it is not always full
C．it travels faster	D．it has fewer seats on it

3. The rules say that each bus may carry ________ passengers at most.

A．twenty	B．forty
C．sixty	D．one hundred and twenty-nine

4. From the passage we can see that ________.

A．the bus service was poor

B．no passengers took their buses

C．no buses except the No.49 bus passed Souk Road

D．the writer was always the first to get on the bus

9 . Have you ever wondered what kind of person you are? I used to think of myself only. I did not care about helping others, but only care about my looks, clothes, money and grades.

One of my neighbors was having so much fun doing voluntary work, and he told me that he felt very good and fresh after helping others. I hoped to get the same results (结果), so I went to do voluntary work.

I did voluntary work at the nursing home for a year. I bought some snacks, coffee and gave them out to the old people here. I talked to them and played games like playing chess with them. They were from China,so they often had trouble communicating with others. I sometimes offered to be their translator (翻译). After my voluntary work at the nursing home ended, I began to do voluntary work at a Saturday English language school, a place for Chinese-American children to learn to speak Chinese.

Before I did voluntary work, I felt useless. I spent all my free time playing video games or hanging out with friends. But now I think I should try to be a useful person in the world. I have learned many life lessons through doing voluntary work. By helping others, I felt I was needed in the world.

1. Why did I do voluntary work?

A．Because I wanted to have good feelings.

B．Because I wanted to be with my neighbor.

C．Because I wanted to learn some skills.

D．Because I wanted to make some friends.

2. What did I prepare for going to the nursing home?

A．I learned some music.	B．I bought something.
C．I played some games.	D．I did nothing.

3. What did I do after I finished doing voluntary work at the nursing home?

A．I stopped doing voluntary work because I was too busy.

B．I began to study at a Saturday English language school.

C．I began to raise money for the old people at the nursing home.

D．I went on helping others in other places.

4. What is the best title for the passage?

A．How to find voluntary work.

B．How to be a great volunteer.

C．What to do to be a volunteer.

D．Doing voluntary work changed me.

10 . On Feb 12, Dalian (not his real name) was taking a train to Changsha, Hunan, for a business trip. While on the train, he went into a carriage to have lunch and chose to remain in the carriage. He did not realize that the carriage was only for people heading to Wuhan.

Several hours later, when the train arrived in Wuhan, Dalian was asked to get off, as he was in the special carriage. Although he was surprised, he didn’t want to cause trouble and got off the carriage with just a single bag.

As Wuhan had been locked down because of the epidemic, Dalian couldn’t find a hotel to stay in. Feeling at a loss, he saw a notice online looking for volunteers to work in hospitals. The payment was 500 yuan a day. Dalian decided to give it a try.

He soon became a volunteer at Wuhan No. 1 Hospital. He was responsible for taking out trash, mopping the floor, disinfecting (消毒) the hospital, dealing with used protective suits and bringing meals to patients.

The young man, reportedly from northeast China, had to work 12 hours every day, changing his protective suit three times a day. While working, he couldn’t drink anything or go to the bathroom. He also had to have close contact with infected patients, which is risky.

Dalian was afraid of getting infected at first. “When I entered the wards (病房), I was kind of frozen and felt like I couldn’t move,” he said. But after seeing more patients get better, his fear gradually went away.

Dalian’s story has since gone viral (走红的) online. People were surprised by his experience, but also described him as having “a heart of gold”.

1. Why did Dalian have to get off in Wuhan?

A．Because he went there for a business trip.

B．Because he was in the wrong carriage.

C．Because he chose to have lunch in Wuhan.

D．Because he bought the wrong train ticket.

2. What made Dalian decide to work at a hospital?

A．He had volunteer experience.	B．He ran out of money.
C．He wanted to become a doctor.	D．He had nowhere to go.

3. Dalian’s job includes ________.
a. taking out trash and mopping the floor              b. disinfecting others’ protective suits
c. dealing with used protective suits                     d. bringing meals to doctor

A．ab

B．ac

C．bd

D．cd

4. What does this passage try to tell us?

A．Everybody should volunteer.

B．We must protect ourselves at all times.

C．Everyone can fight the virus in their own way.

D．We should be grateful for medical workers.

5. Where can you read the passage?

A．A novel.	B．An advertisement.
C．A brochure.	D．A newspaper.